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Hacker News (2020)

The Mystery of Charles Dickens
32 points • comment • jun 07, 2020
Show HN: Practical Python – Python projects for beginners
32 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
Ask HN: I find writing difficult, how do I make it easy?
32 points • comment • jun 09, 2020
Show HN: Model Zoo: Deploy your machine learning model in a single line of code
32 points • comment • jun 29, 2020
What are these 100.x.x.x addresses?
32 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
'Street Crisis' team to replace San Francisco police on mental health calls
32 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
Freeman Dyson Dies at 96; Wrestled with Questions of Physics and Morality
32 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
The Contentious History of the Passport (2017)
32 points • comment • jun 24, 2020
Upcoming missions to look for 'biosignatures' in exoplanet atmospheres
32 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
3D scene reconstruction from RGB (no depth) video
32 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, strong team
32 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
In 2020, Words Are 'Violence,' Arson Is Not
32 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Authors, Publishers Condemn the 'National Emergency Library' as 'Piracy'
32 points • comment • mar 30, 2020
U.S. orders closure of Chinese consulate in Houston, angering Beijing
32 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Amazon fires warehouse worker who led strike for more coronavirus protection
32 points • comment • mar 31, 2020
Systems and Constraints
32 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Generating Crime Safe CSRF Tokens
32 points • comment • apr 13, 2020
Is Hacktoberfest Good for Maintainers?
32 points • comment • nov 05, 2020
Exploration into the Origins of the Wuhan Strain of Coronavirus (2019-NCoV)
32 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
$200 PinePhone Linux smartphone comes with physical kill switch
32 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
Study: Soy Protein Decreases DHT/Testosterone in Healthy Young Men
32 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf says coronavirus approach 'has failed'
32 points • comment • dec 17, 2020
US Betrays Healthcare Workers in Coronavirus Disaster
32 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
Show HN: 1-1 virtual coffees with top tech talent sourced from Twitter
32 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Editors believed their magazines could change lives
32 points • comment • apr 01, 2020
The New American Status Symbol? A Second Passport
32 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
Marketers are panicking over Google's plan to yank cookies from advertising
32 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
EU Court: YouTube Not Required to Share Email and IP-Addresses of Movie Pirates
32 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?
32 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Aesthetics and the Human Factor in Programming (1972)
32 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
A Window onto an American Nightmare
32 points • comment • may 25, 2020
The Sad Story of Mozilla Keeps Getting Sadder
32 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
WikiLeaks Twitter account has been locked
32 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
Big Tech Sees Like a State
32 points • comment • nov 06, 2020
Hungary's Prime Minister Orban Is Allowed to Rule by Decree
32 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
U.S. government has media restrictions at hospitals, to reduce pandemic images
32 points • comment • dec 29, 2020
Making a Timelapse of your PCB design in KiCad
32 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
I've Seen a Future Without Cars, and It's Amazing
32 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
What humans would look like if we could survive car wrecks (2016)
32 points • comment • apr 02, 2020
Ten billionaires reap $400B boost to wealth during pandemic
32 points • comment • dec 30, 2020
Trapped by Coronavirus, Nigeria’s Elite Faces Squalid Hospitals
32 points • comment • apr 03, 2020
Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels?
32 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Show HN: LinCV – transform LinkedIn profile to printable CV in 5 seconds
32 points • comment • apr 04, 2020
Thai Hotel That Put American in Jail Gets New Label on Tripadvisor
32 points • comment • nov 11, 2020
Show HN: Kubernetes Permission Manager, Free and OSS Tool to Manage RBAC/Users
32 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Show HN: Betafeedback – Tools for Feedback Loops and Sprint Reviews
32 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Ask HN: Are RSUs worth your loyalty?
32 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
The flaws of macOS Containers and defaults
32 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Satellite Babies
32 points • comment • may 11, 2020
Show HN: Quik – Internet Explorer as a Service
32 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Engineering a Repairable World
32 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
BMW wants to sell you subscriptions to your car's features
32 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
Phase-space model to forecast COVID-19 infection peak for U.S. states
32 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Why’s Beijing So Worried About Western Values Infecting China’s Youth? (2017)
32 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Wine 5.10 Release
32 points • comment • jun 05, 2020
580 Covid-19 patients in Seoul waiting for hospital beds
32 points • comment • dec 18, 2020
How to Use a Differential Analyzer
32 points • comment • apr 06, 2020
Show HN: Simple – Free Tailwind landing page template
32 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
The Parallelism Blues: when faster code is slower
32 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
Reinforcement Learning Under Moral Uncertainty
32 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
I went back working on 24-inch 1080p screen from a 32-inch 4k screen
32 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Goodbye to Grommet
32 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
FBI 'persuaded Apple to halt iCloud encryption'
32 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Netflix teases desktops-as-a-service offering aimed at VFX creators
32 points • comment • jul 20, 2020
USDA let millions of pounds of food rot while food-bank demand soared
32 points • comment • apr 27, 2020
Facebook algorithm found to actively promote holocaust denial
32 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
LiveUSB builder with ROS (Robot Operating System) installed
32 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Show HN: Maildown – super simple email API
32 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
Yale Students Demand Automatic 'Pass' Due to Covid-19
32 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Linux Hardware Database
32 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
High rate of extrapair paternity in a human population
32 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
The NYT Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur
32 points • comment • dec 28, 2020
Bernie Sanders Suspends Presidential Bid
32 points • comment • apr 08, 2020
Seeking Dark Matter, They Detected Another Mystery
32 points • comment • sep 01, 2020
Detecting manuscripts and publications from paper mills
32 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
Uzbl – Web Interface Tools Which Adhere to the Unix Philosophy
32 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Firefox now tells Mozilla what your default browser is every day
32 points • comment • apr 09, 2020
Concepts – Laws, Principles, Mental Models, Cognitive Biases
32 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
Creator of YOLO and SSD algorithm stopped CV research due to ethical concerns
32 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Complain HN: The new GitHub's layout is a monstrosity
32 points • comment • jun 23, 2020
Mom and pop investors are on a stock buying spree, fueled by free trades
32 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
Chrome/Chromium on Wayland: The Waylandification Project
32 points • comment • nov 21, 2020
Lessig vs. NYT: Very. Good. News
32 points • comment • apr 10, 2020
Image processing techniques that you can use in machine learning projects
32 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Show HN: JavaScript web component for online spreadsheets
32 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Re-creating some of Hey's features using Fastmail
32 points • comment • jun 25, 2020
Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ Slams Virus Lockdown
32 points • comment • apr 19, 2020
Ice Sheet Melting Is in Line with Our Worst-Case Scenario, Scientists Warn
32 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Notes on Linear Transformations
32 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
The long history of drinking games
32 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Wang Labs' New Freestyle Just May Suit Your Work Style (1989)
32 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
MikroOrm v4 /w GraphQL example project that I created over the weekend
32 points • comment • aug 10, 2020
J.Bridenstine/NASA: Katherine Johnson passed away this morning at 101 years old.
32 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
Programming with Punched Cards (2005) [pdf]
32 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
The Wuhan Virus: How to Stay Safe
32 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs (Patreon fundraising campaign)
32 points • comment • nov 30, 2020
20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Dies by Suicide After a $730k Negative Balance
32 points • comment • jun 18, 2020
Joe Biden is the President elect as per AP
32 points • comment • nov 07, 2020
Qt Online Installer 3.2.3
32 points • comment • may 27, 2020
Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
32 points • comment • sep 26, 2020